Senate Bill S3279

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides for inclusion of the school district's regional cost index in calculating the supplemental education improvement plan grant amount for Yonkers city schools

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S3279 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1701
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3641, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S4816, A8167
2011-2012: S1403, A2431, A9009
2013-2014: S3018, A2785
2015-2016: S1645, A784
2017-2018: S2954, A2119
2019-2020: S5541, A3574
2023-2024: A4513

2021-S3279 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for inclusion of the school district's regional cost index in calculating the supplemental education improvement plan grant amount for Yonkers city school district.

2021-S3279 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3279 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3279
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  supplemental  educa-
   tional improvement plan grants
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 8 of section 3641 of the  educa-
 tion  law,  as amended by section 29 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws
 of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   b. To the Yonkers city school district there shall be  paid  seventeen
 million  five  hundred thousand dollars ($17,500,000) MULTIPLIED BY SUCH
 DISTRICT'S REGIONAL COST INDEX, PURSUANT TO SUBPARAGRAPH  TWO  OF  PARA-
 GRAPH  A  OF  SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS
 ARTICLE, on an annual basis.   Such grant shall be  payable  from  funds
 appropriated  for  such  purpose and shall be apportioned to the Yonkers
 city school district in accordance with the payment schedules  contained
 in  section  thirty-six  hundred nine-a of this article, notwithstanding
 any provision of law to the contrary.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00169-01-1

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